Tour world-class museums, read historic cookbooks, browse interactive maps and more. As efforts to contain, the effects of the COVID-19 crisis ramp up, millions of people around the globe are social distancing and self-quarantining themselves in their own homes. Smithsonian magazine has compiled a collection of online culture, history, and science collections you can browse from the comfort of your living room. Click on the underlined links to go the websites.

In addition to digitizing broader collections, many museums have curated archives dedicated to specific topics: Illinois State University’s Milner Library offers a digital collection dedicated to the history of circus and Chicago’s Newberry Library provides online access to more than 200,000 images documenting the history of early America and westward expansion, including watercolors and colored pencil drawings by 19th- and 20th-century Lakota children.